devour

DEVOUR, verb transitive [Latin , to eat.]1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37:20.In the morning, he shall devour the prey. Genesis 49:27.2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. Amos 1:4.Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezekiel 7:15.3. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.4. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. Luke 15:30.5. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.Ye devour widows houses. Matthew 23:14.6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour 1 Peter 5:8.7. To slay.The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.8. To enjoy with avidity.Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight